For All the Fish!

On Friday, March 16, Tutoring Services colleagues gathered on LCC's East Campus for a professional development retreat titled

"Creating a Vision for 2007-2008: 'For All the Fish!'"

About 30 support staff, tutors, and supplemental instruction leaders dialogued about creativity and generated a framework for next year's professional development opportunities.

Here the dialogue continues by sharing questions and insights. Everyone's contributions are welcomed:

• TS colleagues who participated in the retreat
• TS colleagues wondering about the retreat
• Library Services colleagues wondering about the retreat and/or TS professional development opportunities
• new TS hires wondering about the office's professional development opportunities

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Best Kept Library Secrets

Colleagues from Library Services and Tutoring Services collaborated to facilitate an inservice for February 2 in the TLC room 218. The team has prepared hands-on activities and a range of topics for becoming more acquainted with resources offered by the library. Learning about new resources and becoming familiar with them are assets for our service to LCC students.

The session starts with finding out what colleagues already know about the LCC library, followed by a scavenger hunt with these themes:

• Navigation of the Library Web Site


• Search Strategies


• Electronic Resources


• Mel.org and ILL Services

In addition to the Library Scavenger Hunt handout, a list is provided with colleagues' contact information in the library. There is a catch, though! A few topics are provided to find out who to call for a certain purpose, such as student instruction and the catalog.

During and following the inservice, please comment to this post about questions, highlights, and suggestions for future collaboration between our offices.